It's the near future and advances in organic 3D printing have made the organ donor list obsolete. Nelson and Walt run Transplant Unlimited, a company that can print these organs from your own DNA in... More > just a few hours for transplant the same day. Best friends since college, Nelson is devastated when Walt dies in a fiery car crash but he suspects there's more to it when he finds out Walt owed the local crime syndicate two million dollars. The organ printing business was good - why did he need to borrow that kind of money?< Less

It's the near future and advances in organic 3D printing have made the organ donor list obsolete. Nelson and Walt run Transplant Unlimited, a company that can print these organs from your own DNA in... More > just a few hours for transplant the same day. Best friends since college, Nelson is devastated when Walt dies in a fiery car crash but he suspects there's more to it when he finds out Walt owed the local crime syndicate two million dollars. The organ printing business was good - why did he need to borrow that kind of money?< Less

David’s story begins on March 12, 1989 when he has a massive heart attack. He tells of his nearly fatal episode of heart arrhythmia and the stress of having an implantable defibrillator in his... More > abdomen for twenty months. He struggles to accept that his chance for a miracle transplant can only occur when another person dies. David receives a new heart in 1991 and he tells how it has affected him and his family. "Mr. NewHeart" continues through the following years of blessing and challenge. David’s story is one of courage, endurance, victory, and miracles.
David’s wife, Sylvia, gives her perspective on the ordeal in Part 2 of the book. Their son, Mike, gives his perspective on the transplant in Part 3.< Less

The ordinance commonly referred to as "the sacrament" is one of the ordinances of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that has a fixed wording. The same words are obviously... More > important enough to be read on a weekly basis to everyone in the Church. Every word is there for a reason. Certain words are left out for a reason.
This book is mainly written to suggest that much can be learned by prayerfully pondering the ordinance.
Some topics addressed include:
- Existence of God
- Spiritual heart transplant
- Atonement and bitter cup
- Spiritual blood transfusion
- Omnipresent Spirit of the Gods
- Gift of the Holy Ghost
- More sure word of prophecy
- Fulness of the Holy Ghost
- Why the word "always" is not at the end of the prayer for the water< Less

In 2006, my daughter received a donor heart because of a terminal condition known as Restrictive Cardiomyopathy. This book describes the events leading up to a diagnosis of heart failure when my... More > daughter was just five years old.< Less

At age thirty-four, Amelia Savage, America’s sweetheart Olympic champion, suddenly became ill. Her cardiologist discovers a toxic chemical in her bloodstream necessitating an immediate heart... More > transplant. Amelia’s estranged husband appears to be the only suitable donor. How far will Amelia, or her loved ones, be willing to go to save her? The clock is ticking.< Less

The English translation of the early short-novel by Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov.
A kind of Frankenstein parable, Heart of a Dog is the story of a stray dog that gains a human intelligence after a... More > prominent Moscow professor transplants human glands into the unfortunate canine's body.
The novel satirizes a smaller swathe of Soviets' society and seems a prisoner of its own circular plot structure.< Less

A world-famous Moscow professor - rich, successful, and violently envied by his neighbors - befriends a stray dog and resolves to achieve a daring scientific first by transplanting into it the... More > testicles and pituitary gland of a dead man. But the results are wholly unexpected: a distinctly and worryingly human animal is on the loose, and the professor's hitherto respectable life becomes a
nightmare beyond endurance.
As in The Master and Margarita, the masterpiece he completed shortly before his death, Mikhail
Bulgakov's early novel, written in 1925, combines outrageously grotesque ideas with a narrative of
deadpan naturalism. The Heart of a Dog can be read as an absurd and wonderfully comic story; it can also be read as a fierce parable of the Russian Revolution< Less

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